Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

i dont think i really need to explain the patterns im talking bout cuz im sure youve all seen them. wtf do we see those intricate patterns while on shrooms?! the same repetative patters that can be see on holy buildings and temples thousands of years ago. what are they!?

I've seen many different kinds of patterns... just the other night (hehe), I was being driven around (too high of a dose for me to drive... eesh) town. The lights (all of them) turned into these gigantic neon spider creatures with legs stretching across the sky.... and then I blinked them away.

Anyways... the patterns... I honestly can't say I've seen any of "the same repetitive patters that can be see on holy buildings and temples thousands of years ago". But I'm not really into that aesthetic... so maybe my patterns weren't... uh... colored by those ancient designs.

It's too bad there isn't any research into these aspects of entheogens. I imagine there will be in the future (maybe I'll be able to help...). Such research would provide important information in regards to the architecture of our brains.

Many observers see geometric visual hallucinations after taking hallucinogenssuch as LSD, cannabis, mescaline or psilocybin; on viewing bright flickeringlights; on waking up or falling asleep; in "near-death" experiences; and in manyother syndromes. Kluver organized the images into four groups called formconstants: (I) tunnels and funnels, (II) spirals, (III) lattices, includinghoneycombs and triangles, and (IV) cobwebs. In most cases, the images are seenin both eyes and move with them. We interpret this to mean that they aregenerated in the brain. Here, we summarize a theory of their origin in visualcortex (area V1), based on the assumption that the form of the retino-corticalmap and the architecture of V1 determine their geometry. (A much longer and moredetailed mathematical version has been published in Philosophical Transactionsof the Royal Society B, 356 [2001].) We model V1 as the continuum limit of alattice of interconnected hypercolumns, each comprising a number ofinterconnected iso-orientation columns. Based on anatomical evidence, we assumethat the lateral connectivity between hypercolumns exhibits symmetries,rendering it invariant under the action of the Euclidean group E(2), composed ofreflections and translations in the plane, and a (novel) shift-twist action.Using this symmetry, we show that the various patterns of activity thatspontaneously emerge when V1's spatially uniform resting state becomes unstablecorrespond to the form constants when transformed to the visual field using theretino-cortical map. The results are sensitive to the detailed specification ofthe lateral connectivity and suggest that the cortical mechanisms that generategeometric visual hallucinations are closely related to those used to processedges, contours, surfaces, and textures.

I understand you.everytime i have tripped on mushrooms the carpet always displays the same type of pattern. which i can only describe is like that of tribal tattoos and tribal art. it is always circular and spins and flows.i have often tried to draw it but it is too complex.why other people have this same experience is beyond me. but it interests me alot.